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00:00They get caught by doors, brought addicted drug users in the house we slept, and so crack right in front
00:05of you, disrespect, and when my pops left, I took a hot step in the jungle, Hennessy, I squints, took
00:12sips from the cup, bagging up weed, chopping up cane was the beginning, but being able to feed myself was
00:18a given, according to my brothers and friends, we was winning, but still, according to grandma, we was sinning, damn,
00:27you know, at this time, you really gotta understand
00:30Being surrounded by poverty and violence, and parents on drugs, and friends' parents on drugs, it was different for us
00:38growing up
00:401997, chapter 2, I'm sorry Ms. Felby, I was so lost and confused, even though you and Mr. Jones tried
00:48to get through
00:49Shackles on my hands and feet, escorted from school, on the highway, for the first time in my life, Broad
00:55Street, heart for detention, a time of my life
00:58I was scared and tough, all at the same time, but not a punk, I had to fight, just to
01:03eat and survive
01:04Six months in that cold cell, feeling alone, just imagine being 11, that far from home
01:10Missing your mom, only hear her voice on the phone, waiting for court, hoping that day to go home
01:16And still can't touch your mother, only kisses it's blown
01:19To see a smirk on that guard had me feeling a mess, and that smile on that judge had me
01:24feeling like death
01:25Mom asked if you okay, I used to nod and say yes, to put a smile on her face, definitely
01:30the best
01:31Taking little steps, as I head back to the cell, part of the system, feeling like I'm living in hell
01:37Damn, that's how it felt
01:40You know
01:43At this time, things ain't get better for me, it only got worse
01:46Yes it did
01:47But I want y'all to understand something, alright?
01:50Go ahead
01:52Transferred from heart for detention, too many fights
01:55Plus the gel was overpopulated, too many nights
01:58Started acting like them young kids I want them like
02:01Became a product of my environment, a fact of life
02:04Started running up in sales and taking a commissary Leaving with TVs, tapes and CDs
02:10Betting on sports games, losing and not paying Betting on space games, losing and start banging
02:16Sent to another detention, that was different Cause they ain't really rock with people from my district
02:22Very first day, fought, they got the best in me
02:25Three days later, fought, gave them the business
02:28On the fifth day, got jumped in the kitchen
02:31And within one week, we all became cliquish
02:34Residential home was different, a bit calm
02:37I wasn't locked down for 23 and 1
02:40Just couldn't leave the plantation I was on
02:43It was designed to transition you to home
02:46More phone time, visits and furloughs
02:50NYI at 17 years old
02:52Too many tickets are maxed
02:55Hey guys, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up
02:59What's up Lose
03:01What's up Lose Society
03:03What's up Trey
03:04Um, yeah man, welcome guys
03:07Welcome, welcome, welcome
03:08Yeah, we live again for another interview
03:11Today I got DMT
03:12So yeah, that's what's up
03:14So I'm just gonna wait for him
03:16See if he's coming in
03:30I got sent to Northern
03:34Taking showers with handcuffs
03:36In the morning
03:37Shackles on my feet
03:38At rec
03:39In the corner
03:40Surrounded by gangs
03:41Murderers and lawyers
03:43My cell he had 84 years
03:45And he was innocent
03:46He took the blame for his little brother
03:48And had to live with it
03:49And not one night he complained about doing it
03:52The crazy thing about all this
03:54At the end of it
03:55He ain't do it
03:56Even his little brother was innocent
03:59Damn
04:00True story
04:02Hold your head horn
04:05Pardon me
04:07Mother's pain
04:25The system's not broken
04:26It's working just how they want it
04:28It's bigger than race
04:29We dealing with economics
04:30You're playing for fame
04:38My guy
04:39T
04:40How's it
04:41My guy, how you doing
04:44I'm good
04:45I'm good and you man
04:46Good, good man
04:48Great, great
04:49Welcome to Hip Hop Nation TV
04:50South Africa
04:52Absolutely
04:52I appreciate you
04:53Doing your thing out there
04:55Building the
04:56Building the platform
04:58For the culture
04:59Respect
05:00True that
05:01True that
05:02True that
05:02True that
05:02Thanks man
05:03I appreciate it
05:04I love what you do
05:05Absolutely
05:06But yo man
05:06Just introduce yourself
05:09To everyone
05:10That's going to be watching
05:11Yeah
05:12So my name is
05:13DMTS
05:15My company is
05:16DMTS Network
05:19DMTS is an acronym
05:21For
05:23Determination
05:25Motivation
05:26Sacrifice
05:27I mean
05:28Transformation
05:28And Sacrifice
05:29So that's
05:31That's
05:31Kind of like my brand
05:32That's what I built
05:33My brand based off of
05:34And it's also my name
05:36Like if a lot of people
05:37Do their research
05:38They'll find that
05:40DMTS
05:40Stands for like
05:42My full
05:42Like
05:43Government name
05:44Which is
05:44Devon Maurice
05:45Tanksley Sr
05:47So yeah
05:48You know
05:49I come from
05:50Connecticut
05:50I'm out here
05:52In the United States
05:53I'm in Connecticut
05:53And
05:54You know
05:55I've been
05:56Doing music
05:56All my life
05:59Entrepreneur
05:59You know
06:00I own
06:01A couple
06:01Businesses
06:02Out here
06:02In Connecticut
06:03A restaurant
06:04You can look it up
06:05It's called
06:05My Wife
06:06Didn't Cook
06:06It's an amazing name
06:08For a restaurant
06:08Because it attracted
06:10So much press
06:11And so much name
06:12And so much people
06:13But the name
06:14Of the restaurant
06:14Is called
06:14My Wife
06:15Didn't Cook
06:15The website
06:16Is my
06:16Wife
06:17Didn't Cook
06:17Dot info
06:18I also
06:19Own a youth
06:20Program
06:21For the kids
06:22My passion
06:23Was always
06:24Basketball
06:24Growing up
06:25So I wanted
06:26To give kids
06:27That outlet
06:27So I created
06:28A youth
06:29Mentoring program
06:30So we serve
06:31As young kids
06:32In the community
06:33Boys and girls
06:35That's called
06:36The Legacy Foundation
06:38Also
06:38And I run
06:40Like I said
06:41DMTS Network
06:41Is my brand
06:42And I'm a writer
06:43I'm a writer
06:43And an author
06:44Of two books
06:44My first book
06:46Is called
06:46A Mother's Pain
06:47Which I wrote
06:47In 2015
06:48The second book
06:50Is called
06:50Pain, Guilt, and Success
06:51What I wrote
06:52In 2008
06:53Is just basically
06:53Life experiences
06:56What we go through
06:57Out here
06:58And our communities
06:59And stuff
06:59And I put it
07:00In the form of art
07:01And just try
07:02To inspire people
07:02You know
07:03Try to give people
07:04A view of life
07:05Of hardship
07:06And also inspiration
07:08And yeah man
07:10So that's basically
07:11You know
07:12A little bit about me
07:13And I kind of
07:15Put music away
07:16You know
07:17For a little while
07:18A few years back
07:20When I was in my
07:21In my writing zone
07:22In my building zone
07:24You know
07:24Taking care of family
07:25You know
07:26Trying to see
07:26Which direction
07:27I wanted to go
07:28I kind of put music
07:29Just aside
07:29For a little while
07:30And then I've gained
07:32So much experience
07:33So much knowledge
07:34So much information
07:35I came across
07:36And now I felt like
07:37At this time
07:39A point in my life
07:40Where it's time
07:41To basically
07:42Take that information
07:43And that experience
07:44And just put it
07:45In the form of art
07:45And just create
07:46Content and music
07:48And just share it
07:49With the world
07:49And I appreciate you
07:51You know
07:52For reaching out
07:53And also
07:53Just the community
07:54Out there in South Africa
07:56Because
07:57My Instagram
07:59For the past
08:00Like eight months
08:00I've created
08:01Like a fan base
08:02Around South Africa
08:03Like I know
08:04That song
08:04The system
08:05I know you probably
08:05Heard it
08:06But that song
08:07The system
08:08You know
08:08They really support that
08:10And I see the translation
08:11Through the streams
08:13Like I can see
08:14South Africa data
08:15Of my streams
08:16Like going up
08:17So I know for a fact
08:18That the love
08:20Is real out there
08:21In South Africa
08:21And I appreciate it man
08:23I really appreciate it
08:25For sure
08:26For sure
08:26Much love
08:27Because yeah man
08:28That song
08:29Is something
08:29I could relate to
08:32I'm sure
08:32Many of us
08:34Even here
08:34At home
08:35I think
08:36I think like
08:38The entire continent
08:39Like can relate to it
08:41And many
08:43Even other blacks
08:44Like in the diaspora
08:45Yeah
08:46I think they can relate to it
08:47Yeah
08:47Because it seems like
08:48We are fighting
08:49The same enemy
08:51You know what I'm saying
08:53Absolutely
08:54But tell me like
08:54You know like
08:56You mentioned like
08:57You come from
08:58An environment
08:59Of poverty
09:00And violence
09:01How is that
09:02How is that like
09:03Can you explain that
09:05Yeah it's like
09:06You know
09:07You know how like
09:07A lot of people
09:08We you know
09:09We come from
09:10These neighborhoods
09:11Where we share
09:12The same
09:13The same stories
09:14And the same
09:16You know
09:18Struggles
09:18That we go through
09:19And you know
09:20Everyone's struggle
09:21Could be different
09:22You know
09:22I could
09:23You know
09:23I could tell you
09:24From now
09:24Like you know
09:25Our struggle
09:26Out here in Connecticut
09:26Could be different
09:27From a struggle
09:28Out there in South Africa
09:29But we share
09:30The same struggle
09:31It's pain
09:31You know
09:32It's pain
09:32We go through pain
09:33So
09:35It's a point
09:36Where you know
09:37I was born in the 80s
09:39You know
09:39Right when
09:40You know
09:40Crack cocaine
09:41Hit the streets
09:42Out here
09:43And it was
09:44It was damaging
09:45To our communities
09:46It was damaging
09:47To our parents
09:48You know
09:48It was damaging
09:49To you know
09:50Our fathers
09:51You know
09:51It was a time
09:52Where DCF
09:53Was just going
09:54In our homes
09:54Taking kids away
09:55Like I've seen
09:56My friends
09:57Get snatched up
09:58By DCF
09:59And the police
10:00And taken away
10:00To another home
10:01You know
10:02I've seen some
10:03Of my best friends
10:04You know
10:04Get killed
10:05You know
10:06I've seen people
10:07Get taken away
10:07And sent to prison
10:08For 10 years
10:0915 years
10:10You know
10:11Our mothers
10:12Was addicted
10:13To crack cocaine
10:14They couldn't
10:14Kick the habit
10:15And we were just
10:16Stuck in this box
10:18You know
10:18Of this
10:20This project
10:21Where
10:22Violence was just
10:23Around us
10:24Fighting
10:24You know
10:25Drugs
10:25Guns
10:26Needles
10:27You know
10:27Addiction
10:28So it's like
10:29When you come up
10:30And I tell people
10:31This a lot of times
10:32When you grow up
10:33And this is all you see
10:35It takes a toll
10:36On a young kid's mind
10:37And we start to
10:39Imitate that
10:40Through violence
10:41So now
10:42Like I explained
10:43This to somebody before
10:43I said it was a time
10:44Where people will
10:45Walk through our neighborhoods
10:47Like walk through
10:48The projects
10:48And we want to
10:49Fight them
10:50We want to beat them up
10:51And I say to myself
10:52While I'm older
10:53And I go
10:53Why?
10:54Because we were
10:55Going through
10:56So much pain
10:56We wanted other people
10:58To feel that pain
10:59You know
10:59And this is what
11:00We go through
11:00Now in life
11:01When you got this
11:02Black on black crime
11:03And we fighting each other
11:04And we killing each other
11:05All it is
11:06Is we're expressing
11:07Pain in the wrong way
11:08We all feel pain
11:11But we are
11:12Pushing it on someone else
11:13And that's where
11:14The gun violence
11:15Come in
11:15The stabbing
11:16The killing
11:16The selling drugs
11:17Us going to prison
11:19So that environment
11:20Kind of like
11:21Changed my life
11:22And when I was
11:2311 years old
11:24I was sent to
11:25Juvenile detention
11:26I was sent to jail
11:27At 11 years old
11:28So it also
11:29Opened up my mind
11:30Like damn
11:30Like I
11:31I really like
11:33Like I
11:34I really like
11:36And
11:37I'm in a place
11:38That I don't know
11:39Nobody
11:41Everybody's away
11:41From their parents
11:42And families
11:43The COs
11:44Don't care about us
11:45The judges
11:45Don't care about us
11:46And
11:47And no one
11:48My parents
11:49Is struggling
11:50And crying
11:51Just like
11:51I am
11:52And I'm 11 years old
11:53So when I experienced that
11:55It kind of like
11:57Turned me more
11:58I wouldn't say
11:59Made it worse
12:00But kind of like
12:01Made me feel like
12:02Alright
12:02So if this is the worst thing
12:04That can happen to me
12:05At 11 years old
12:06When I get home
12:07I'm gonna just continue
12:08I'm gonna continue
12:09I'm gonna make it worse
12:10You know
12:10I'm gonna go out there
12:11And I'm gonna try to sell
12:12Drugs
12:13And I'm gonna try to
12:13You know
12:14Make money
12:14And I'm gonna rob
12:15And I'm gonna steal
12:16And I'm gonna
12:17And that's where
12:18That's the wrong direction to go
12:19But when you ain't got
12:20No mentors to tell you
12:21Like nah nah nah
12:23Youngin
12:23That's not the right way to go
12:24You know
12:26It's tough
12:27It's hard
12:27So all that
12:29You know
12:29And I say that
12:31And I say that
12:32To say this
12:32You know
12:33Growing up now
12:35Looking at these young kids
12:36In my neighborhood
12:37It makes me say
12:38I understand them
12:40Not that it's okay
12:42That they're continuing
12:43What they're doing
12:44But I understand them
12:45And by me understanding them
12:46Now I can reach them
12:48Now I can reach them
12:49You know
12:50They'll listen to me
12:51Because they'll say
12:52You know what
12:53D actually been down that road
12:55He actually was in prison
12:56You know
12:57He actually went through
12:58The juvenile detention system
12:59Northern CI
13:00You know
13:01He sold drugs
13:02He was affected with violence
13:03And all that
13:04So let me sit down
13:05And listen to them
13:05As opposed to
13:07Going to school
13:08Or a teacher
13:09That don't even look like them
13:10Trying to tell them
13:12That this is the direction
13:13They should go
13:14Or this is the thing
13:15That they should do
13:16You know
13:16I feel like that connection
13:18That I have
13:18And that's why I'm using
13:19My story
13:20And my vision
13:21To actually uplift
13:23Communities
13:24And people
13:24That surround me
13:26You know
13:26I feel
13:31Yo
13:31D
13:35D
13:38D can you hear me
13:39Yo I can hear you now
13:40I kind of broke up
13:41A little bit
13:42Oh okay
13:43Cool cool cool
13:44Yeah yeah
13:44Yeah like
13:45Also
13:47For sure
13:47So like
13:48I also wanted to know
13:49Like I mean
13:51When you were in prison
13:53How was that experience
13:54And like
13:56What was
13:57What was that thing
13:58That made you
13:59Want to change
14:01And that made you say
14:02Like this is enough
14:03You can't live
14:04This kind of lifestyle
14:05Yeah man
14:06What it was
14:07Number one
14:08It was my kids
14:09You know
14:10At this time
14:11You know
14:11I was in prison
14:12And my son was born
14:14When I was
14:14He was two
14:15So the first time
14:17I seen my first son
14:18He was two years old
14:19So that took a toll on me
14:21And then the first time
14:22I seen my
14:23My second son
14:24He was
14:25He was 18 months
14:27So that took a toll on me
14:28So now I'm like
14:29Damn I'm continuing
14:30This cycle
14:30Where there's a possibility
14:32That my kids
14:33Is going to follow
14:33This same cycle
14:34If I don't change
14:36And then I also said
14:37That if I go back home
14:40The only thing
14:41That's going to happen
14:42Is I'm going to follow
14:42The same footsteps
14:43That my dad
14:44Keeps following
14:45And nobody's
14:45Breaking the cycle
14:46My uncle
14:47Keeps following
14:47You know
14:48The big homies
14:49In the projects
14:50And my cousins
14:50My friends
14:51Everybody is going
14:52Through this cycle
14:53And I was able
14:55To snap out of it
14:56You know
14:57And I think
14:58Literally it was
14:58The grace of God
15:00For me to really like
15:02Snap out of it
15:03Because I could have
15:04Came home
15:04And just continued
15:05You know
15:05I could continue
15:06That cycle
15:07And just been lost
15:08But it was
15:09The grace of God
15:10Man that allowed me
15:11To really like
15:12Just see
15:13And I don't mean
15:13The grace of God
15:14In the sense of like
15:15I went to church
15:16I'm saying
15:17Just me having
15:18The energy
15:20That I was projecting
15:21To the universe
15:22And to the world
15:22That there is
15:24Something better out there
15:25And I think
15:26That's what life is
15:27Like you know
15:28I projected that energy
15:30When I was in jail
15:30Like you know what
15:31When I come home
15:32I'm going to change my life
15:33Like I don't care
15:34When I come home
15:35I'm going to do better
15:36When I come home
15:36I'm going to do this
15:37And then I set a plan
15:38To do that
15:38So when I came home
15:39In the temptation
15:40Which is always going to come to you
15:42But in the temptation
15:43It hit you
15:43It was more
15:44I was stronger
15:45So when my friends
15:46Was like
15:46Nah man
15:47Come on man
15:47We got these
15:48You know
15:48You can sell these bags
15:49I was like
15:50Nah man
15:50Good
15:51I'm good
15:52I don't want to do that
15:53I'm straight
15:53And they were like
15:55You'll be back
15:56Don't worry
15:56You'll be back
15:57And after time
15:58Two weeks
15:58A month
15:59A year
16:00Then they realized
16:01Like damn
16:01Be serious
16:02And then that's when
16:03They started respecting me
16:04And saying
16:04You know what
16:04I respect what he's doing
16:06At the end of the day
16:06Because he
16:07You know
16:07He changed his life
16:08He's serious
16:09And in prison man
16:11You know
16:12When you're 11 years old
16:13In prison
16:15These kids
16:16Are all suffering
16:17Like I go back to pain
16:18These kids are all
16:19Suffering from pain
16:20So like
16:21I'll tell you a story
16:22Like
16:22So you can kind of
16:24Get a visual
16:24Right
16:25So in juvenile detention
16:27They hold about
16:27150 kids
16:28Right
16:29And these cells
16:30These cells have about
16:32Four to six
16:32Six people
16:34In the cells
16:34So it's not like
16:35A two cell
16:36Like you see on TV
16:36Like these were more like
16:38You know
16:38It was like a room
16:39With like
16:40Three bunk beds
16:41And six people
16:42Would be in these rooms
16:42So at 11 years old
16:44Between 11 and 15 years old
16:46You could be in a room
16:47With you know
16:47And that's a big difference
16:48When you're 11
16:49And there's a 15 year old
16:50So
16:51My first time there
16:53They were taking my food
16:54And this is what they do
16:55Like they take your food
16:57They take your shoes
16:58You know
16:58And if you want to fight
16:59You can fight
16:59You know
17:01Sometimes there's cliques
17:02There's groups
17:02Where they're just
17:03Going to jump you
17:04They're going to beat you
17:04And I talk about that
17:05In one of my songs
17:06You were just playing
17:07A mother's pain
17:08When I talked about
17:09The very first day
17:10They fought
17:11They got the best of me
17:14It's because
17:14They're affected
17:16With this pain
17:16They're going through
17:17The same pain
17:17So they're just
17:18Putting it on
17:18Whoever that they
17:19Don't know
17:20I don't care about you
17:21I don't know who you are
17:22So I'm going to
17:23I'm going to give you pain
17:24Because I'm going through pain
17:25So they'll take your food
17:26There's times
17:27Where in the mornings
17:28That I didn't eat
17:28You know
17:29I didn't eat
17:30You know
17:30They take your breakfast
17:31Because breakfast
17:31And lunch
17:32Was the main thing
17:33You ate in your room
17:34And then dinner
17:34Was outside your room
17:36And then after a couple weeks
17:37I said to myself
17:38You know what
17:39I'm not no punk
17:40Like I know there's a lot of them
17:41But I ain't no punk
17:42And I'm going to eat my food
17:43So there was one morning
17:45Where the food came in
17:46And I told the guys
17:47I said yo
17:47Don't touch my food
17:48Now I'm 11
17:49And there's four of them
17:50That's in there
17:51That's 13, 14, and 15
17:52So they're way bigger than me
17:54I'm a little skinny kid
17:55So I'm like
17:56I'm eating
17:57I'm eating my food
17:58And they're like
17:58Listen, you touch your food
17:59You already know what it is
18:00So as soon as they came in
18:02I started eating my food
18:03They walked up on me
18:04I threw the plate
18:05Right in their face
18:06And I started fighting all of them
18:07And then the SEALs came in
18:08They grabbed me out of it
18:09And from that day on
18:11I went to another cell
18:12And nobody ever
18:13Nobody ever
18:14You know
18:14Touched my food
18:15But that was the beginning
18:19Of me standing up for myself
18:21But it was also like
18:23The beginning of me
18:25Following suit
18:26And affecting pain
18:27On other people
18:28Because what happened was
18:30I started becoming that person
18:32I became a product of my environment
18:34I started
18:35I started taking food
18:37From young kids
18:38That was coming in there
18:39I look at it now
18:39And I go
18:40Damn
18:40But when you're in that environment
18:42And you're in that situation
18:44It's like
18:45This is what we do
18:46So people was coming in
18:47And I was taking their food now
18:49Man
18:49And I was
18:49You know
18:50And I was taking their shoes
18:51And their clothes
18:51And I didn't
18:53I've been going through that
18:54From 11 to 12
18:55Juvenile detention
18:57NYI
18:58Cheshire
18:58All the way up to like
19:0019 years old
19:01Until like 19
19:02I started to be around
19:04Older people
19:05That was in prison
19:06That was kind of
19:07Directing me different
19:08And it was like
19:08Nah youngin
19:09Like we do our time over here
19:11This is what we do over here
19:12You know
19:12You ain't gotta
19:13You ain't gotta worry about that
19:14You ain't gotta do that
19:15And then my mind started changing
19:16Because I started being around
19:17Older people
19:18As opposed to when you're young
19:19And so
19:20Just imagine a whole bunch of kids
19:22In one room
19:22With no direction
19:23And nobody to talk to
19:25It's just a whole bunch of fights
19:26And stuff you know
19:27But the older dudes
19:28Started telling me like
19:29Nah you ain't gotta go
19:30That direction homie
19:31We take care of each other
19:33You know
19:33And that's where I started
19:35Growing up
19:35And I started saying
19:36You know what
19:37I don't gotta act like that
19:39No more
19:39And then wisdom
19:40Started kicking in
19:41Knowledge started kicking in
19:42I started picking up
19:43The books
19:43I started you know
19:44Really thinking about life
19:46So when I came home
19:47I put all that behind me
19:49And I haven't been to jail
19:50Since man
19:52Wow
19:52That's powerful man
19:54So please
19:55I mean like
19:56You mentioned that
19:57You've created a program
19:59For young people
20:00In the community
20:01So like
20:03Tell us specifically
20:03Like how
20:04How did you do that
20:07Who
20:07Who
20:08Who
20:08Who
20:08Who are the people
20:09That helped you
20:10In creating
20:11The program
20:12The program right
20:14Yeah
20:14Yeah yeah
20:15So I basically
20:16I basically
20:16Just said to myself
20:17Like
20:18Like
20:19Like we need a
20:20We need a
20:21We need a program
20:22We need a
20:24Cause you know
20:25The Boys and Girls Club
20:26Everybody know
20:27The Boys and Girls Club
20:28Right
20:28We got the YMCA
20:30We got
20:30You know
20:31We got those
20:31Those corporations
20:32But you know
20:33They don't really care
20:34About the well-being
20:35Of us
20:36Us black and brown kids
20:38You know
20:39They just care
20:39They'll set up a program
20:41They set up a league
20:41They take your money
20:42And keep it moving
20:43I wanted a program
20:44Where I can take these kids
20:46And
20:47And make sure
20:47That their grades
20:48Is right
20:49Before they can play
20:50Make sure that
20:51They're respecting
20:51Their parents
20:52And their mom
20:53Before they can play
20:54You know
20:54Get them off the streets
20:55Make sure that
20:56They're in a safe place
20:57And also mentor them
20:58And guide them
20:59And train them
21:00And make them better players
21:01And better kids
21:02And that was my vision
21:03So I started
21:04New Britain Legacies
21:05In 2016
21:06And
21:06And you know
21:07It's a blessing
21:08That right now
21:09We're still going strong
21:10And the program
21:11Is just growing
21:12It's just growing
21:12It's growing
21:13So
21:14It was more of a
21:15Of a passion of mine
21:16Loving basketball
21:17And then saying to myself
21:18You know
21:19I didn't make it to college
21:20Like I wanted to
21:21I didn't play college ball
21:22Or high school ball
21:23Because I was
21:24I was in too much trouble
21:25But now let me give
21:26These other kids
21:27The opportunity
21:28To do that
21:29And that's why
21:30That platform was created
21:31And that's what it's doing
21:32Right now
21:32And it wasn't easy
21:34In the beginning
21:34You know
21:35In the beginning
21:35It wasn't easy
21:36But now we've built
21:38That momentum
21:38And we've raised
21:40The money we were supposed
21:41To raise
21:41And we invested
21:42What we were supposed
21:42To invest in
21:43And now
21:44We didn't send kids
21:45To college
21:45And some of the kids
21:47Come back
21:47And they're mentors
21:48To the younger kids
21:49You know
21:49We service kids
21:50All the way to like
21:51Kindergarten
21:51You know
21:52And some of the
21:52High school kids
21:53That come back
21:54And they'll service
21:55These kids
21:55You know
21:57Volunteer
21:57Mentor them
21:58And I think
21:59That's priceless
22:01Right
22:01Because I couldn't make it
22:04So I gave it
22:05To another kid
22:06And another kid
22:07Came back
22:08And gave it
22:08To another kid
22:09That's generational wealth
22:10You know
22:11That's generational wisdom
22:12That's generational guidance
22:14That's generational knowledge
22:15That's passing the torch
22:16So that program
22:20Is like
22:20I'm very
22:21Very passionate
22:22About that program
22:23And I'm
22:25Going to continue
22:25To build that
22:26Because I want
22:27To touch kids
22:28All over the country
22:29Not just
22:29Not just
22:30Connecticut
22:30You know
22:31Yeah
22:33So like
22:34What do you think
22:35Like the community
22:36Also
22:38Should contribute
22:39How do you think
22:40The community
22:40Should also contribute
22:41In building
22:43The youth as well
22:43Yeah
22:44I think
22:45I think
22:45I think
22:47A lot of times
22:48We get caught up
22:49In just
22:50Investment
22:51Like oh
22:52We need money
22:52We need money
22:53But a lot of times
22:54It's not all about
22:54Just money
22:55You know
22:56If you're an individual
22:58Or if you're an uncle
22:59Or a father
23:00Or anyone
23:01You can be a mentor
23:03To a kid
23:03You can
23:04You can
23:05Guide a kid
23:06In the right direction
23:07Just by giving him
23:08Some good advice
23:09And it could change
23:10His whole mentality
23:11You know
23:12He could be on the way
23:13To go fight
23:14Or to go
23:15Bust his gun
23:16Or something
23:17And you could say
23:17One thing
23:18That touched that kid
23:19Heart
23:19You know
23:20I would tell you
23:20One thing that I say
23:22Is that
23:22Us
23:23Us as human beings
23:24How you doing
23:25Us as human beings
23:26We're connected
23:27We're all connected
23:28We're all one
23:29I don't care what color you are
23:31I don't care what race you are
23:32Whatever
23:32We're all one
23:34You're right
23:35You're right
23:36She said we all connected
23:38She said it's that energy
23:39So
23:40We're all one
23:41Right
23:42So
23:42What I would say is
23:43If you want to help
23:44Change the world
23:45Right
23:47Change yourself
23:49Change the way you think
23:50Change the way you act
23:52Change the way you interact
23:54Because
23:55Think of a
23:56Think of a
23:57Ocean
23:58Right
23:59And you take a little rock
24:01Or a little pebble
24:02Right
24:02And you throw it in the ocean
24:03It's going to riffle
24:05It's going to riffle
24:06And eventually it's going to riffle
24:08All the way out
24:09You know
24:10There was a time when
24:11Last year
24:13When George Floyd
24:14Was murdered by the police
24:15And the whole world
24:18The whole world
24:19Felt it
24:20How can
24:22How can the whole world
24:23Feel something
24:24You know why
24:24Because
24:25When the
24:25When the human being
24:27Sees another human being
24:29That bleeds like them
24:30That breathes like them
24:31That lives like them
24:34They
24:36It hurts them
24:37It's something
24:38I don't care if you don't know them
24:39If you're not related
24:40It makes you say
24:41Yo that can be me
24:42Or that can be my son
24:43So it made the whole world
24:45Shut down
24:46Like everybody was going crazy
24:48And that's a
24:49Living proof that
24:50We're all connected
24:51Like we all belong
24:53To the universe
24:54We're all
24:54We all connected
24:55To nature
24:56So if you want to
24:57Change the world
24:58You don't got to
24:59Get on the rooftop
25:00And tell people
25:01You know
25:02And yell at the rooftop
25:03You don't got to do that
25:04Because we're creatures
25:05Of vibration
25:06So all you have to do
25:07Is change your vibration
25:09Start to
25:09Start to say
25:10Good morning to people
25:11Instead of walking by people
25:12In the grocery store
25:13Or instead of walking by people
25:15In the neighborhood
25:15In the streets
25:16We don't even stop no more
25:17Just because we don't know nobody
25:18We don't say good morning
25:19We don't say hi
25:20We don't say how you doing
25:21There's a time where
25:22I walked up to someone
25:24And I just asked him
25:25Hey how's it going
25:26And he looked at me
25:27And he was like
25:27You know what
25:28I've been having a bad day
25:29And by the way
25:31Thank you
25:31Thank you for that
25:32Because now I feel kind of good
25:33You know
25:34And you just never know
25:35What people are going through
25:36Like you can speak to people
25:37So what I would say
25:39If you want to like
25:40What people can do
25:41To change their communities
25:42And their environments
25:43If they don't have the funding
25:44Or the money
25:45To build these platforms yet
25:47I just say you know
25:48Start with yourself
25:50Start with yourself
25:51You know
25:51And give off good energy
25:54Give off positive energy
25:55And I think that will
25:58Will ripple effect
25:59And it will make a change
26:01In the community
26:02And people will start
26:03To change their lives
26:04And once everybody
26:04Starts to change
26:05Then what happens
26:06The community changes
26:08Then after the community changes
26:09Your state changes
26:11And after your state changes
26:13Your country changes
26:14And after the country changes
26:15The world changes
26:16And that's how you change the world
26:17You know
26:18One person at a time
26:20But start with yourself
26:22True true true
26:24Plus you also mentioned
26:25Like you also
26:26Studied your own
26:27Like entrepreneurial journey
26:30Your businesses
26:31Tell us more about that
26:32Yeah yeah
26:33So I own a restaurant
26:35I own a restaurant
26:36I was telling you
26:36To call my wife
26:37I'm actually outside
26:38I'm going to show you
26:40So we close
26:41Oh it's beautiful
26:42We close in 20 minutes
26:44But this is the restaurant
26:46Good
26:47This is beautiful
26:48Guys support
26:49Support guys
26:50Everyone in the US
26:52Support guys
26:52Yeah
26:53Call my wife
26:55Didn't cook
26:55You know
26:56I'll let you see
26:57Through the window
26:58Real quick
26:58This is beautiful
27:00Yeah
27:01Yeah
27:02You see
27:03Yeah
27:04So that's my
27:05You know
27:06That's my
27:07That's my
27:08That's my establishment
27:09And um
27:10And it's another platform
27:11You know
27:12Not only do we provide
27:13Great food
27:14Or high quality food
27:15But it's a platform
27:16To create jobs
27:17In the community
27:18It's a platform
27:19To inspire people
27:20In the community
27:21So they can go out there
27:22And create their ventures
27:23And do their things
27:24So
27:25So entrepreneurship
27:26Is just something that
27:27Another thing that I'm
27:28Real passionate about
27:29You know
27:29I'm not a type of person
27:31To be stuck to one thing
27:33True
27:33I feel like my purpose
27:34In life
27:35Is just to
27:36Use my life experiences
27:38And my pain
27:39That I've been through
27:40And share it with the world
27:42To help inspire
27:42And change their lives
27:44You know
27:44So
27:45Yeah man
27:46Yeah
27:46Business
27:47You know
27:48Books
27:49And I'm
27:50And like I said
27:51I've been doing this
27:52Probably for about
27:52I started my actual
27:54First book
27:56And my journey
27:57To what I'm doing now
27:58Probably in 2012
28:01So it takes time
28:02Like I remember
28:03Listening to like
28:04Rick Ross
28:04And Jay-Z
28:05And Michael Jackson
28:06And they
28:07And their interviews
28:08They would say
28:09That a lot of people
28:11Want to see the end result
28:12And mimic that
28:13But they don't know
28:14The work that they put in
28:16You don't know
28:17How many
28:17How much
28:18How much hours
28:19It took
28:20And how many days
28:21And years
28:21It took
28:22To see a star
28:23And be like
28:23Yo that's amazing
28:24Or that business
28:25It takes blood
28:27Sweat and tears
28:27It takes a lot of time
28:28A lot of years
28:29So you see me now
28:31And I put 10 years in
28:32But I got another
28:3310 years to go
28:34To get to the top
28:35Like I need people
28:36Around the world
28:37To know
28:39Who I am
28:40I'm trying to make history
28:40You know
28:41I'm trying to make history
28:42And I'm trying to change
28:43Kids lives
28:43I'm trying to change
28:44People lives
28:45So they can live
28:46Better than how we live
28:47In this generation
28:48You know
28:49One thing I tell people
28:50Is that
28:51The worst thing
28:52That we can do
28:53Is live a life
28:56Die
28:56And the next generation
28:58Can't benefit
28:59From nothing you did
29:00By living
29:02There's no purpose
29:03True
29:03Like what
29:04You just
29:04You just lived for what
29:05If you live
29:07A life
29:0860 years old
29:0970 years old
29:1080 years old
29:11And you die
29:12And you didn't
29:13Impact not one person
29:16It's a waste of life
29:17You live your life
29:18Yeah
29:19You didn't waste
29:20You live your life
29:21But it's a waste of life
29:22Because I don't feel
29:23That
29:23That's the purpose
29:24Of life
29:25I feel that
29:26The purpose of life
29:27Is to
29:28Is to be placed
29:29Wherever God
29:30Places you
29:30In the universe
29:31And
29:32To find your
29:33God-given talent
29:35No matter if it's
29:36Teaching
29:36If you want to be a teacher
29:37I believe
29:38That that talent
29:39Is no less
29:40Than someone
29:41Who want to be an artist
29:42You know
29:42So whatever
29:43Your God gift is
29:45I believe
29:45That you need
29:46To find out
29:47What it is
29:47And you need
29:48To take that gift
29:49And you need
29:50To share it
29:50With the world
29:51Like and
29:52And don't
29:53It doesn't matter
29:54If you're scared
29:54Or if you
29:55If you're affected
29:56By fear
29:57Or you know
29:58If you're hesitant
29:58Because if you're hesitant
30:00Or you fear something
30:01That just means
30:02It's for you
30:03You know
30:04If
30:05If
30:06If
30:06If you say
30:07For instance
30:07You want to start a business
30:08And you're scared
30:09You're like
30:10Oh my God
30:10I really want to do this
30:11But I'm scared
30:12That really want to do this
30:13Should overpower that fear
30:15Because that means
30:16That it's for you
30:17And that's what happened with me
30:19I really wanted to be
30:20An entrepreneur
30:21But I was scared
30:22I was like
30:22Damn it
30:23Is this
30:23How I'm going to get the money
30:24How I'm going to do this
30:25How I'm going to do that
30:26I don't know how I'm going to get this
30:27Nobody's going to support me
30:28And then I said to myself
30:29At the end of the day
30:30It's not about everybody else
30:31It's about me
30:32I want to do it
30:34So whether they gravitate or not
30:36I'm going to do it
30:36And that's what I think
30:37People should do
30:38Just feel
30:39Whatever you feel
30:40You want to do
30:41Do it
30:42Because there's so many
30:44Billions of people in the world
30:46Some of them
30:47Like I always tell people
30:48Some people like McDonald's
30:49Some people like Burger King
30:50Like you know what I'm saying
30:51Some people like white
30:52Some people like black
30:53You know
30:53Some people like white chocolate
30:54Some people like black chocolate
30:55It's just
30:56It's everybody's not going to like one thing
30:58You know what I'm saying
30:59So
31:00So
31:00I think that
31:01You know
31:02As long as people just
31:03Have that vision
31:05And that passion
31:06Of what they want to do
31:07Forget about what everybody else say
31:09Like you
31:10Look at you
31:11You took your shot
31:12You reached out to me right
31:14For sure
31:14You reached out to me right
31:15And I said
31:16Oh hell yeah
31:17I don't care if you got
31:18I don't care if you got
31:19A hundred thousand followers
31:20Or if you got one follower
31:21It ain't about
31:22It ain't about that social media shit
31:24It's about connecting
31:26With another human being
31:27You get what I'm saying
31:27So I'm connecting
31:29With another human being
31:31My brother
31:31From South Africa
31:32That wanted me on this platform
31:34I got time
31:36Or I can make time
31:37I'm all for it
31:38So if we
31:39If everybody do that
31:40And leave that social media shit alone
31:42Talking about
31:43You know
31:44How many followers he got
31:45What's his platform like
31:46If he got a blue check
31:47Or a gray check
31:48Like fuck all that
31:49Like is
31:50Is he passionate about
31:51What he doing
31:52You know
31:54Let's make that connection
31:55Let's build that network
31:56You know what I'm saying
31:57So I appreciate
31:58What you doing too man
31:59Because you
32:00You took that step
32:01Out there
32:02To build a platform
32:03And I guarantee you
32:04If you keep it going
32:05You're going to be
32:06The biggest platform
32:07In South Africa
32:08You feel me
32:09For sure
32:10For sure
32:10Appreciate that
32:11Definitely
32:12Definitely man
32:14Yes man
32:15I appreciate it man
32:16So like
32:16I mean like
32:17Plus I mean
32:19You're doing your own music
32:23You started like
32:24Your own EP
32:25From Poverty to Consciousness
32:27Yeah
32:27What inspired you
32:30To create that
32:31That project
32:32You know what I'm saying
32:33Yeah man
32:33I wanted to give
32:35I wanted to give
32:36The people
32:36Just something
32:38To hold on to
32:39While I'm actually
32:40Building more content
32:42And I just felt
32:43That those seven tracks
32:44Like you can listen
32:46To those seven tracks
32:47And know my story
32:48And know my story
32:49Like you know
32:50Like I give you
32:52I give you a walkthrough
32:53Of when I was young
32:54I talk about
32:55Some of my lyrics
32:56You know
32:57I talk about my parents
32:58I talk a little bit
32:59About consciousness
33:00And I just wanted
33:01To give someone
33:02Something that they can
33:03Take and say
33:04You know what
33:05This is valuable
33:06It's valuable information
33:08And while I'm working
33:09On my new project
33:10That was something
33:12Just to hold them off
33:13But from poverty
33:13To prodigy
33:14You know
33:14It definitely was
33:16A piece of content
33:17To just express myself
33:20On how consciousness
33:22You know
33:23Connects people
33:24Like I spoke about
33:24Before about energy
33:25How consciousness
33:26Connects people
33:27And energy
33:28Connects people
33:29And we're all connected
33:30Like there's no
33:31Difference between
33:32There's no difference
33:34Between like a tree
33:37And the human hand
33:38There's no difference
33:40It's nature
33:41It's nature
33:42The only difference is
33:44A tree
33:45Has to be a tree
33:46But it serves
33:48Its purpose
33:48The sun and the moon
33:50It has to be
33:51The sun and the moon
33:52But it serves
33:53Its purpose
33:53Human beings
33:55Are the only
33:56Creatures in the world
33:58That can be
33:59Whatever we want to be
34:01We're the only
34:02Creatures in the world
34:02That can be
34:03Whatever we want to be
34:04You want to be a doctor
34:06And you put the time in
34:07You can be a doctor
34:08You want to be a lawyer
34:09You can be a lawyer
34:10You want to be an artist
34:10You can be an artist
34:11You want to be a writer
34:12You can be a writer
34:12You want to be a father
34:13You can be a father
34:14Whatever you want to be
34:15You can be
34:16Like human beings
34:17Has that ability
34:18So in that project
34:20I wanted to let people know
34:21Like listen
34:22From poverty to consciousness
34:23Use our minds
34:25Use our thoughts
34:25Use our energy
34:26To create life
34:28To create whatever you want
34:29In the world
34:30And it can happen
34:31You know
34:32And I always tell people
34:33Don't base your life
34:35Off facts
34:36Because what's a fact today
34:39Is a non-fact tomorrow
34:42Years ago
34:43It was a fact
34:44That you couldn't
34:45Get inside of a metal thing
34:47And fly across
34:48To another country
34:49That was a fact
34:49Somebody look at you
34:50And be like
34:51You ain't flying nowhere
34:52Now
34:53It's not a fact
34:54You can actually
34:55Get on an airplane
34:55And fly to another country
34:57So don't get caught up
34:58In somebody saying
34:59Oh you can't do that
35:00Oh it's a fact
35:01Look at you
35:02Right here
35:02You can't do that
35:03You can't do that
35:03Nah
35:04There's no facts
35:05In the world
35:05Nothing is a fact
35:07Everything in the world
35:08Is possible
35:09Because history
35:10Has showed us
35:11That it's possible
35:12What's a fact today
35:13Is not a fact tomorrow
35:15You get what I'm saying
35:15You know
35:16So
35:17True
35:17True
35:17True
35:17So the biggest thing
35:19I would say about my project
35:20About the EP
35:21Is that
35:21I expressed consciousness
35:23And I expressed energy
35:25And if you believe
35:26In consciousness
35:27And energy
35:28And life
35:28You can create
35:29Your whole world
35:30You can create
35:30Your whole universe
35:31You know
35:32Shout out to my
35:33Shout out to my
35:34Big homie right there
35:35You know
35:35One of my
35:36One of my
35:37Big homies
35:37Tapping in from
35:38From the neighborhood
35:40But yeah man
35:41So
35:42So
35:43So that project
35:44I know you probably
35:45Listen to the whole body
35:45Of work of it
35:46But that project
35:47Right there
35:47Is very important
35:48Because
35:48I just wanted to
35:49Elevate the minds
35:50Of people
35:51I wanted people
35:51To just really
35:52Like tap in
35:53And know that
35:54You know
35:55As
35:55As minorities
35:56Where we come from
35:58The only difference
35:59Between us
36:00And other neighborhoods
36:02Is that
36:03When we walk out
36:04Of our houses
36:04We see needles
36:05On the ground
36:06We see
36:07Where there's gunshots
36:08Up there on the street
36:09You know
36:09There's people
36:10Getting beat up
36:11And shot
36:12And then
36:13And then we say
36:14To ourselves
36:14Like what else
36:15Are we supposed
36:16To think about
36:16As opposed to
36:17Like one of my
36:18Friends told me
36:18One of my
36:18One of my white friends
36:20He told me
36:20And he's the one
36:21Who explained this
36:22He said
36:22And I feel bad
36:24He said
36:24Because me
36:25He said
36:25I step out
36:26Of my house
36:26And my next door
36:28Neighbor
36:28Is an electrician
36:29My dad's friend
36:31Is a plumber
36:31My uncle
36:32Is a lawyer
36:33So he's surrounded
36:35By success
36:35He's surrounded
36:36By success
36:37So it's easier
36:38For him
36:39To say
36:39You know what
36:40I want to
36:40I want to do this
36:42For my life
36:42Or I want to do this
36:43As opposed to
36:44Someone like me
36:45I'm stuck
36:46In this box
36:46So all the people
36:48To look up to
36:48Is the ones
36:49Who's making money
36:50The ones
36:51Who's selling drugs
36:51The ones
36:52Who's gang banging
36:53My father in jail
36:54My mom's on
36:55On cocaine
36:56Like it's like
36:56We live through this shit
36:58And then we grow up
37:00And people say to us
37:00Well you can change your life
37:02Or you can do this
37:03But why you not
37:03Nah it's not that easy
37:05It's not that easy
37:06Because subconsciously
37:07It affects our mental
37:08It's in our DNA
37:10You know
37:11There was a time
37:12Where I tell people
37:13Right now
37:13That there was a time
37:14Where we would get
37:16Murdered during slavery
37:18If we got caught reading
37:20You know how crazy
37:21That sounds
37:22Think about it right
37:23If they caught
37:25Our parents reading
37:26Or caught us reading
37:27They would kill us
37:28They would hang us
37:29So it's in our DNA now
37:31To not pick up a book
37:33That's why they say
37:34Now to people
37:34They say
37:35If you want to hide
37:35Something from a black person
37:36Put it in a book
37:38You heard about that
37:39You heard that saying
37:39You want to hide
37:40Something from a black person
37:41Put it in a book
37:42And they say that now
37:44But not realizing that
37:45It's because our DNA
37:47We haven't
37:48We didn't pick up books
37:49Because back then
37:50When we picked up a book
37:51Our parents was lynched
37:52So we stayed away
37:54From wisdom
37:55And knowledge
37:56And information
37:56Now we're living
37:57In a day of information
37:58Wisdom and knowledge
37:59And they fear us
38:01And they should
38:02But they shouldn't fear us
38:03To come back
38:04And turn on them
38:05They should just
38:07Fear us
38:08Because we're going to be
38:09The people that
38:11We were destined to be
38:12Back then
38:12And y'all ain't let us be
38:13Now we about to be
38:15That people
38:15And now you see
38:16A lot of black ownership
38:17A lot of black businesses
38:18A lot of black companies
38:20People elevating
38:21Because consciousness
38:22Is changing the universe
38:24Everybody's
38:25Everybody's saying
38:25I don't care if you're white
38:26Or black
38:26Like you're human
38:27You bleed like I bleed
38:28You bleed like I bleed
38:30You sleep like I sleep
38:31You live how I live
38:32And that's where
38:33The world is coming to
38:34And that's what's
38:35Going to change the world
38:36Man energy
38:37And that's why
38:37That project that I created
38:39You know from poverty
38:40To consciousness
38:41Is just all about
38:42The mind
38:43It's elevating our minds
38:46You know
38:47True that
38:47True that
38:48True that
38:48So I guess
38:50That's what inspired
38:51Songs like
38:52The system
38:52You know what I'm saying
38:53Like what you're saying
38:54Right now right
38:55Yeah the system man
38:56I love that song man
38:58I listen to that song
39:00A lot too man
39:01That song is like
39:02Probably like a year old
39:03But it's so much content
39:05In there
39:05It's like
39:06Those lyrics can't get old
39:08You know those lyrics
39:09Can't get old
39:09You know I started the song
39:11I started that song
39:12With
39:12The system's not broke
39:14It's working just how they want it
39:16It's bigger than race
39:17We dealing with economics
39:18Like
39:19And the reason why
39:20I started it with that line
39:21Is that it's bigger than race
39:23We dealing with economics
39:24Is because
39:25When they
39:25When they killed
39:26George Floyd
39:27Right
39:27And they had
39:28And he had his knee
39:29On his neck
39:30Right
39:31Have you ever seen
39:32A police officer
39:34Shoot
39:35Or choke
39:36A Chinese kid
39:38No
39:40A Jewish kid
39:41Nope
39:43A Japanese kid
39:45Nope
39:46Anyone with economic
39:47Connections and power
39:49You have never seen
39:50A police officer
39:51Go out their way
39:51And do that
39:52But they do it
39:53To the black community
39:53Why
39:54Because we don't have
39:55No economic power
39:57We don't have wealth
39:58We don't have banks
39:59We don't own
40:00You know
40:00There's
40:01There's
40:02Politics
40:03It's so crazy
40:04It's like
40:04Oh another black kid
40:05It's okay
40:05And they get a slap
40:07On the wrist
40:07But that's why
40:08I said in that song
40:09That let a Chinese kid
40:10Get choked on the sidewalk
40:11You think we in debt now
40:13Welcome to China
40:14Let a Chinese kid
40:15Get choked by a police officer
40:17The whole Chinese army
40:18Would be in the United States
40:19I swear to God
40:20I swear to God
40:21You get what I'm saying
40:23So it's
40:24The whole triad game
40:25Yeah it's bigger than race
40:26It's bigger than race
40:28It's economics
40:28It's connections
40:29It's people who know people
40:31Who's like
40:32That's not gonna happen
40:33You know
40:34I read a story in New York
40:35Where there was Spanish
40:37And black cops
40:38And they were saying that
40:40They were forced to go out
40:42In New York City
40:42In the streets
40:43And only target minority kids
40:47And one of the cops said
40:49He asked the sergeant
40:50Like why
40:51Why we just can't target
40:52Any kid
40:52Who's just doing wrong
40:53He said
40:54Because if you target
40:55The wrong kid
40:56There's gonna be
40:57A phone call
40:58From the mayor's office
40:59To the police department
41:00And we don't got time
41:01To deal with that
41:02Literally just like that
41:03So I know for a fact
41:06That it's economic power
41:07It has nothing to do
41:08With black and white
41:09It's economic power
41:10And that's why
41:12I'm on this journey
41:13To build businesses
41:15To build programs
41:16To create wealth
41:17Because
41:18Not only for my kids
41:19But I'll be
41:20Damn
41:21I'll be
41:22Damn
41:22If my grandkids
41:24And their friends
41:24And their grandkids
41:25Live in the world
41:26That we're living in today
41:27And I was in this world
41:29And I had something
41:30To do with it
41:31And I couldn't fix it
41:32I'll be damned
41:33I'll be damned
41:34So that's why
41:35I go as hard as I go
41:36And a lot of people
41:37Like right now
41:38Like that's tapped into
41:39This interview
41:39You know
41:40They come from
41:41Where I come from
41:41You know
41:42They come from
41:43The same very neighborhood
41:44Where I come from
41:45The same environment
41:45So they
41:46I'm speaking my truth
41:48But I'm speaking
41:48All of our truth
41:49You know
41:50That's where all of us
41:51Come from
41:51And from you
41:52Tapping in from
41:53South Africa
41:54I know it ain't easy
41:55Out there
41:56I know it ain't easy
41:57You know what I'm saying
41:58I know it ain't easy
41:59We all go through
42:00Struggles and pain
42:01And that's why
42:02I'm glad that you
42:03Reached out
42:04To make this connection
42:04You know
42:05Because it's very important
42:06To share each other's stories
42:07You know
42:08Very important
42:09For sure
42:11Definitely
42:11So like
42:12I mean
42:13Like
42:13From now
42:14Are you
42:14Are you
42:15Planning anything
42:15In terms of
42:17Any events
42:19With your programs
42:20Or
42:21Any music
42:22Coming new
42:23Yeah so I'll give you
42:24A quick update
42:25Right
42:25So for my program
42:26We're
42:27We're turning it
42:28Into a
42:29Small prep school
42:30So now
42:31We started off
42:32As a program
42:33Now we're actually
42:34Going to be
42:34A basketball prep school
42:35Where we're going to be
42:37Showcasing D1
42:38And D2 colleges
42:39To these players
42:40To these colleges
42:42That's a big thing
42:43And we're going to be
42:43Educating these kids
42:44We actually bought
42:46A school program
42:47So it's going to be
42:49An online course
42:49And we're taking kids
42:50From 9th grade
42:51All the way to 12th grade
42:52So that's a big step
42:54And
42:54Also too
42:57I'm working on
42:58A new project
43:00You know
43:00For my
43:01A new album
43:02I'm working on
43:04And also too
43:05My restaurant
43:06You know
43:06We're in year four
43:08Like I said
43:09We're in year four
43:10And we're looking
43:11To continue
43:12To build that
43:13Platform
43:13And
43:19Oti
43:31Sound
43:32Sound
43:35Sound
43:35Sound
43:37Yeah I broke up
43:39Can you hear me now
43:40You hear me now
43:42Yeah
43:42Yeah you know
43:43Yeah yeah
43:43Somebody was calling me
43:45I tried to
43:45I tried to
43:45Take the phone off
43:46But what I was saying
43:47Is just to backtrack
43:48Is I was saying
43:49Is that
43:50People travel
43:51Like almost two hours
43:52To
43:54To come to my restaurant
43:55And visit
43:56For the experience
43:57That we give them
43:58And then
43:59I'm talking from like
44:00I'm in Connecticut
44:01So two hour drive
44:02New York City
44:03Boston
44:04They didn't
44:05Came from Philly
44:06Atlanta
44:06And truck drivers
44:08Everybody
44:08So we just want to
44:09Keep building that platform
44:10Because as we grow
44:12What I want people to know
44:13And the community to know
44:14Is that we're not a selfish company
44:16And I'm not a selfish person
44:18So my whole vision is
44:20If I succeed
44:21You succeed
44:22If my wife didn't cook
44:24Becomes a multi-million dollar restaurant
44:26Then guess what
44:27That means more funds
44:28For programs
44:29That means more businesses
44:30That I'm going to create
44:31And create more jobs
44:32And we can help elevate
44:34The culture together
44:35So for people out there
44:37Just to know
44:38Is that
44:38You know
44:39Every dollar you spend
44:40In my organization
44:41It goes back into the people
44:43And back into the community
44:44Do you know
44:46Yeah
44:46Wow
44:47That's amazing
44:48Before you leave us
44:50My brother
44:50Is there like
44:52Other social media handles
44:54Where people can reach me
44:55Yeah yeah
44:57So
44:57So you can
44:58You can reach me
44:59On Facebook
45:01DMTS Network
45:02Instagram
45:03If you go to
45:04Instagram
45:05DMTS Network
45:06And just click the link
45:07In the bio
45:07It'll pull up
45:08All the platforms
45:10That I'm on
45:10And it'll pull up
45:11All my information
45:12All my website
45:13Everything
45:13But yeah
45:15LinkedIn
45:16Facebook
45:17Instagram
45:19Twitter
45:20I'm mainly active
45:21On Instagram
45:23But
45:24Like I said
45:25If you go to Instagram
45:26And you click that link
45:27It'll give you
45:27Like the whole spill
45:28And the whole story
45:30Wow
45:31That's amazing
45:32So I guess
45:33If you do have flyers
45:36Then we'll share it here
45:38Because that's what
45:38We usually do
45:39With every
45:40Oh bad
45:42Then you'll let us know
45:44Got you
45:45Got you
45:46Got you
45:47For sure
45:47For sure
45:48For sure
45:48For sure
45:48But before you leave us
45:50Right
45:50Since you say
45:51You got something new
45:52That's coming
45:53Could you please give us
45:54Like a 16 part
45:55Just as a sample
45:56Just for us to know
45:58A little sample
46:01Yeah
46:01A little sample
46:02Let me see
46:03Let me see
46:04Because I
46:05Like so far
46:06I probably wrote
46:07I probably wrote
46:08Like seven songs
46:09So far
46:10Yeah
46:10Let me
46:12Let me
46:12Let me
46:12Let me
46:12Let me see
46:13Let me see
46:13Let me see
46:13Let me see
46:14Mm-hmm
46:22Ha ha ha
46:25It's a couple
46:26It's a couple of things
46:27I actually
46:28Alright
46:28I'll give you a little taste
46:29Of something else
46:30I was working on
46:31It's like
46:31Like one of our remixes
46:32Right
46:33For sure
46:35The most beautiful things
46:37Is not the watches
46:38And chains
46:38it's the beauty you see in material things it's the things you can't touch and the things you
46:44can't hold take the lessons from me or take the lessons from hold take the teachings from kendrick
46:50ricky ross of cold the 50th law is like a book full of gold so think and grow rich this
46:56is food
46:56for the soul but see that some of the things they don't want you to know they don't want you
47:00to learn
47:01or even want you to grow you see i want you to know because you wanted my own be yourself
47:06be
47:06great be on top of the globe but always remember hate is part of the role because first they hate
47:11you then they love you then they hate you again so take the good with the bad happy with the
47:15sad
47:16some raised by their mom somebody dad some got both parents some got none but as long as you got
47:22you
47:23you already won you the one it's powerful man you know brother she yes oh yo this was like a
47:33powerful
47:33interview i've learned a lot from you no thank you i enjoyed it i enjoy myself i'm inspired you know
47:39yeah i'm out of words my father absolutely man keep it up i appreciate you man we'll have another
47:44update we'll have another update soon all right definitely definitely definitely all right keep
47:51in touch yes keep doing your thing my guy thank you so much all right south africa south africa i
47:58love
47:58y'all i'll be there please shout out hot food yes yes please take care much love for sure
48:10oh guys it's you know we always bring up amazing interviews here at home so yeah shout out
48:19my name is pira aka ecliptic so yeah you can also check my other instagram account ecliptic so you can
48:26get my music there also as well for those i don't know that way that i'm an artist as well
48:30um thanks guys for for for watching um oh vajay welcome welcome um well you just got it now but
48:40okay don't worry you'll get to see the whole interview once i'm done uploading everything
48:45so yeah guys um you can find us on busbrow you can find us on podbean um you can find
48:53us on youtube
48:54so yeah i just want to thank you guys for watching um i appreciate it um yeah peace
49:00i'm out but let me just leave you with some music as a is that cool
49:06and a few dollars they're playing for your master's name and all the power whoever controls the land
49:12controls the people until we the people start acting like veto let's build an empire together and start
49:18to veto all that dumb shit they propose about veto without us being present no seat at the table
49:24they got us at the door trying to see through the people they say if you want to hide something
49:28from a nigga put it in a book it's messed up but it's true we have to read more can't
49:34focus on just
49:34the proof writing rhymes is cool but study the business too we have kids now can't focus on just
49:40you some might not see the vision but that's cool as long as i inspire a generation of youth
49:46create a different path for them something new mothers left to raise girls and boys too
49:51they bagging up we getting high before school trying to cope with their pain and hers too
49:57no jobs more prisons less schools but go hard more driving less moves you gotta get straight to
50:04the point like a basket set a bunch of goals and follow them with action don't quit stay focused
50:10plus passion though rich little spending more stacking this the blueprint to wealth without a
50:16question 12 trying to choke us out you get the message bullets don't got no name count your
50:21blessings crime rate is rising chicago is through the roof detroit michigan la and newark too ct
50:28getting worse by the day without a clue heartbeat number one waterbury is number two followed by the
50:34port new haven i'm so confused we need to get a grip on things or we gonna lose put the
50:39game back in the
50:40box and read the rules then take it back out the box and make a move education is freedom you
50:45know
50:46knowledge is power unity is the answer no matter race or color place here on this earth to be great
50:51together everything is connected energy is a weapon plus the mind and human body soul is so epic but we
50:58were never taught the way the mind functions powered by the conscious and the subconscious thought
51:04shape reality only limitation is us don't think hourly or salary think ownership business and
51:11opportunity every machine operates off the unity that's why it's very important now for you and me
51:17to make sure our dollar circulates more than four weeks right now it's four hours this shit is so
51:22deep i ran as an independent for the love of it i'm not a democrat or republican but i work
51:29with
51:29democrats and with republicans we all have values ideas something to give just different point of
51:35views that's part of the biz so stop catfighting acting like
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